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东邪西毒
Ashes of Time

《东邪西毒》（英语：Ashes of Time）是1994年上映的香港武侠电影，由王家卫执导，张国荣、梁家辉、林青霞、梁朝伟、刘嘉玲、杨采妮、张学友主演，张曼玉特别演出。本片荣获第51届威尼斯电影节、第31届金马奖、第14届香港电影金像奖等本土及海外大型电影颁奖典礼多项奖项。在2005年，获香港电影金像奖协会票选为“最佳华语片一百部”之一。
2008年，王家卫花了四年时间重新剪辑的《东邪西毒：终极版》在戛纳电影节首映，随后在世界各地巡回上映

Ashes of Time (Chinese: 東邪西毒) is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and inspired by characters from Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Starring
张国荣 Leslie Cheung, 梁家辉 Tony Leung Ka-fai, 林青霞 Brigitte Lin, 梁朝伟 Tony Leung Chiu-wai, 刘嘉玲 Carina Lau, 杨采妮 Charlie Yeung , 张学友 Jacky Cheung, 张曼玉 Maggie Cheung, 白丽, 王祖贤 Joey Wong, 刘洵（客串）, 邹兆龙

故事
欧阳锋（张国荣）在兄长成婚的那天离开家乡白驼山，因为嫂子（张曼玉）是他最爱的女人。他隐居在沙漠小镇，经营著一家旅店，结识往来的过客，也做杀手掮客的生意。风流剑客黄药师（梁家辉）是欧阳锋的朋友，每年都要来沙漠与欧阳锋畅饮，然后他都还会再去见一个人，并去白驼山见欧阳锋的嫂子（张曼玉）。今年，他带来了一坛酒，名叫醉生梦死，据说可以让人忘记一切。慕容燕（林青霞）出重金请欧阳锋杀黄药师，因为黄药师欺骗了他的妹妹慕容嫣。而慕容嫣（林青霞）要欧阳锋杀慕容燕，因为她哥哥不让她和黄药师在一起。但实际上，慕容燕和慕容嫣是一个人，因为黄药师骗了她，爱着一个叫桃花（刘嘉玲）的女人，所以她陷入了自己角色幻觉的漩涡里。后来，她成为独孤求败。盲武士（梁朝伟）是桃花的丈夫，原来和黄药师是好友，后来因为桃花，和黄药师决裂。他浪迹天涯，一心想在失明前回家乡看桃花。为凑足盘缠在欧阳锋的引介下，成为替钱卖命的杀手，独战数百名马贼，求仁得仁，不敌身亡。村姑（杨采妮）想聘杀手为弟弟报仇，求人的代价是全部的家当，一只驴和一篮鸡蛋，虽一再遭到欧阳锋的拒绝，却一直不肯离开。洪七（张学友）是一名赤脚刀客。欧阳峰牵线，让他去杀马贼。他消灭了马贼，然后答应了村姑的要求，只身杀掉了太尉府的刀客，报酬只是一颗鸡蛋，却被砍断了一根手指。他带着自己的老婆离开客栈，后来成为“北丐洪七公”。

Background
The film's story is a prequel to the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes as it imagines the older characters when they were younger. It focuses on the main antagonist (Ouyang Feng) and humanizes him into a protagonist while retaining his despicable qualities. Feng, known as the Western Venom, crosses paths with the other powerful wuxia masters. Their backstories are depicted with great liberty and sometimes completely subvert the intended meaning from the novel. During the film's long-delayed production, Wong produced a parody of the same novel with the same cast titled The Eagle Shooting Heroes. Because it received limited box office success, the parallels Ashes of Time drew between modern ideas of dystopia imposed on a wuxia film have led critics to cite it as one of Wong Kar-wai's most under-appreciated works. In the 1960s, King Hu's Come Drink with me (Da zui xia) brought Wu Xia Pian to a superior artistic level. Wong grew up immersed in Wu Xia culture. In 1972, The Way of the Dragon(Meng long guo jiang), movie directed by Bruce Lee, persuade Jiang Hu culture to the global stage. In the mid-1990, Wu xia pian entered to a new stage. Wong selects characters from "new school" Wu xia novel writer Jin Yong's work, Legend of the Condor Heroes, and created an unprecedented Wu xia story. Due to the original prints being lost, Wong re-edited and re-scored the film in 2008 for future theater, DVD and Blu-ray releases under the title Ashes of Time Redux. The film was reduced from 100 to 93 minutes. Both the original and Redux versions can still be found on Asian markets, while only the Redux version is available to western markets. Several criticisms of the Redux version have been noted, such as poor image quality and color mastering from the source material, cropping and removal of portions of the bottom image, poor English translations, and the re-scoring.

Cast and Character 演员阵容与角色
张国荣 Leslie Cheung 饰演欧阳峰